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Jazz From Hills
TrimmedBush and Hedges
Custody of Beheaded People, and Voting as a Character Issue
The parents of the man beheaded by the Iraqis for revenge of the American atrocities say that the guy was in the hands of American coverts. The parents of the woman from West Virginia seemingly conducting the sex acts of the Iraqui prisoners say she was a good CHRISTIAN GIRL. My dog eats its own shit sometimes. The only thing I know to be true is the third statement, my dog Rex eats his shit sometimes.
Beheadings, overseeing sodomy, dogs eating their own shit, what do these diverse activities have in common? Not a fucking thing.
The beheading was done by Iraquis who were pissed at what happened in the TORTURE CHAMBERS OF AMERICA (the numbers of these chambers are climbing). The sodomy was conducted by CIA moles who told that West Virginia idiot of a girl she was best serving her country by making these prisoners perform sodomy, which is an abhorrent MUSLIM thing to do. My dog eats his shit when he is sick.
My dog's behaviour is the least sick of any of the above described events. He just eats his shit when his stomach feels funky. I guess it works. He get's spunky after he eats his shit.
I doubt one gets spunky after making someone fuck another human being for no reason. I doubt there is a lot of champagne and cigars after you lop a head off a human being. Hell, who knows? I may be wrong. I've never been a participant in either activity.
At this point in history, I think there could be cause for debate as having a serious character flaw if you vote for the men that got us into this mess. Five short years ago, impeachment of Clinton was front page news. How quickly times change when you vote an idiot and two war-mongerers into office. Way to go, you Republicans!!! We're kickin' ass, huh? God help us all.
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The Wall Street Poet
An Iraq Owner's Lament
Colin Powell warned President Bush before the invasion of Iraq that if we went in we'd end up owning the place. We went in. And now...
An Iraq Owner's Lament
We own this rundown property,
The nation of Iraq.
We've paid a hefty price for it
And taken lots of flack.
The folks most keen to do the deal
And make the acquisition,
Still hype its many benefits,
They're showing no contrition.
But as a voting share holder
Of Iraq's entangled owner,
I'm hoping 'sted of outright buy
We just took on a loaner.
What exactly says the contract
That we signed for with Iraq?
Can we not renew our rental lease?
Can we give the damn thing back?
© 2004
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The wind is changing, so it's gonna get hot again.
Another way I can tell is the kid's allergies are kicking up.
Talked to dear old Dad back in PA - he's chomping at the bit for the weather warm up so he can plant his tomatoes. This year he used egg cartons to start his seeds.
Rock singer Iggy Pop arrives with his girlfriend Nina Alu at the Playstation 2 'Underworld' party at Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, Tuesday, May 11, 2004. The event, which allowed guests to preview new Playstation 2 game titles, featured special performances by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Danger Mouse and Iggy Pop.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
'Cold Turkey'
Kurt Vonnegut
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We're spreading democracy, are we? Same way European explorers brought Christianity to the Indians, what we now call "Native Americans."
How ungrateful they were! How ungrateful are the people of Baghdad today.
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. Hail to the Chief.
That chief and his cohorts have as little to do with Democracy as the Europeans had to do with Christianity. We the people have absolutely no say in whatever they choose to do next. In case you haven't noticed, they've already cleaned out the treasury, passing it out to pals in the war and national security rackets, leaving your generation and the next one with a perfectly enormous debt that you'll be asked to repay.
Nobody let out a peep when they did that to you, because they have disconnected every burglar alarm in the Constitution: The House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the FBI, the free press (which, having been embedded, has forsaken the First Amendment) and We the People.
For the rest, 'Cold Turkey' By Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks, Lar!
'The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Other Fresh American Songs'
Set to Music
After hearing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld dress down the media at Pentagon press briefings, two San Francisco musicians came to an inevitable conclusion: his words simply must be set to chamber music.
So they've taken Rumsfeld's explanations of world affairs and set them to airy classical compositions.
"The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Other Fresh American Songs" includes "The Unknown" from Rumsfeld's Feb. 12, 2002, briefing on the situation in Iraq:
"As we know,
"There are known knowns.
"There are things we know we know.
"We also know there are known unknowns ... "
For more, 'The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Other Fresh American Songs'
Still Hammers Out Justice
Pete Seeger
When Pete Seeger was recording songs like "Wimoweh" with the Weavers folk quartet in the 1950s, he didn't give much thought to the fact the people who originally created the music generally got nothing in return.
Now Seeger is lending his name to the Campaign for Public Domain Reform, an effort to create a system for part of the royalties from folk tunes to reach the corners of the world where the songs originated.
In a performing career spanning more than six decades, Seeger was as likely to turn up at union halls, peace marches and picket lines as in large concert halls or on television. He wrote or coauthored such anthems as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and he adapted and arranged other standards including "We Shall Overcome" and "Guantanamera."
For the rest, Pete Seeger
President of the 57th international Cannes Film Festival jury, American film director Quentin Tarantino arrives with American director Sofia Coppola to attend the screening of 'Bad Education' directed by Pedro Almodovar of Spain in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Opening night film 'Bad Education' is not competing for prizes.
Photo by Laurent Rebours
Wants 'Life Back' After Book
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton joked on Tuesday that he needs to finish his memoirs because "I need my life back."
"For three months I have done nothing but try to finish the story of my life that was hard enough to live the first time," he said at a fund-raiser sponsored by Voices for Working Families and Moveon.org at the Apollo Theater in Harlem just blocks from Clinton's offices.
The former president will embark on a worldwide tour when his book is released, Knopf said. He is slated to make his first promotional book appearance on June 3 at the book industry's BookExpo America annual convention in Chicago.
Bill Clinton
Buying Michael Moore Documentary
Miramax
Miramax Films chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein plan to buy back Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11" - which Walt Disney Co. blocked Miramax from releasing - and distribute it themselves.
Under the deal, the brothers, who have a thorny relationship with parent company Disney, would not be able to distribute the movie through Miramax. They would have to find a third-party company.
Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein spent about $6 million on the film. He and his brother would have to repay Disney for the investment, and would likely insist on a deal that cuts Disney out of any future profits.
A similar deal was worked out in 1999 when Disney forced Miramax to give up filmmaker Kevin Smith's "Dogma," which took an irreverent approach to Catholicism with modern prophets, angels and apostles in a bid to stop the end of the world. Lions Gate Films eventually picked up "Dogma."
Miramax
Trio Get Renewals
'Law & Order'
Fans of the three "Law & Order" shows can look forward to more - and No. 4. An agreement between NBC and producer Dick Wolf, announced Wednesday, includes pickups through 2005-06 for Wolf's current series, "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," extending them through their 16th, seventh and fifth seasons, respectively.
And it makes official the fourth entry in the franchise, "Law & Order: Trial by Jury," which will premiere at an unspecified time during the 2004-05 season. Previously, Jerry Orbach, a longtime star of the original "Law & Order," was announced as a transfer to the new series, which is described as "a richly textured drama set entirely in the arena of the courthouse."
'Law & Order'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Vermont Exhibit
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol: Intimate & Unseen will open Sept. 18 at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. The exhibit will feature works collected by Paramount Pictures executive Jon Gould, who was Warhol's companion during the early 1980s. "What's unique about this exhibit is it's work that's less known than his '60s work. Andy Warhol constantly reinvented himself, and his artistic output is absolutely huge," said exhibit curator Mara Williams.
"Andy gravitated toward people that were beautiful, not only in a physical but in a spiritual way," said Jay Gould, Jon Gould's twin brother. "I hope people (who see the exhibit) get the feeling from the show that this person was a friend of Andy's."
Andy Warhol
Barry, left, and Robin Gibb pose for pictures after receiving honorary degrees from the University of Manchester, Manchester, England, Wednesday May 12, 2004. The Gibb brothers, members of the band the Bee Gees, also accepted a posthumous degree on behalf of their brother Maurice who died in January 2003.
Photo by Jon Super
Signs for Other NBC Shows
Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw won't be leaving his broadcast home of 38 years. NBC announced on Wednesday that Brokaw, 64, has signed a contract that will keep him at the network through 2014.
Brokaw, who's stepping down as anchorman of NBC's "Nightly News" Dec. 1, will anchor and produce documentaries for NBC as well as its other cable channels, including MSNBC and CNBC.
He will also serve as an analyst on major breaking news events, the network said.
Tom Brokaw
Baby News
Aiden Michael Marshall
The 35-year-old actress Tracey Gold, who played Carol Anne Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains, gave birth to Aiden Michael Marshall on Saturday at Tarzana Hospital, a statement from her publicist said.
Gold and her husband, Roby Marshall, have two other sons, seven-year-old Sage and five-year-old Bailey, said Karynne Tencer of Tencer & Associates.
Aiden Michael Marshall
Money Honey Leaving 'Squawk Box'
Maria Bartiromo
CNBC reporter Maria Bartiromo, whose breathless reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was a symbol of the 1990s boom, is leaving her reporting perch.
She said Wednesday she was leaving CNBC's morning show, "Squawk Box," to concentrate on other duties at CNBC and NBC.
Bartiromo was the first TV reporter permitted on the exchange's floor, where she'd deliver rapid-fire specifics on the market's rise and fall - and she wasn't roundly welcomed when she started in 1996.
But she caught on, and was nicknamed the Money Honey by New York tabloids. Web sites sprung up devoted to her hairstyles - which fluctuated like the market - and the late rock singer Joey Ramone wrote a song about watching her on TV for his last album.
Maria Bartiromo
Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Satellite Museum
Phoenix
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum plans to open a satellite museum early next year in downtown Phoenix.
The "on tour" museum will be housed in a two-level building near America West Arena and will remain for at least five years, becoming permanent if it's well received. Featuring travelling displays, rare items connected to artists and interactive educational exhibits, it could draw more than 100,000 visitors a year, organizers said Monday.
Phoenix
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Signs Calif. School Degrees
Ahnold
California's college graduates are getting a bonus on their diplomas this year: the autograph of a Hollywood superstar.
Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger is governor, his name appears on every degree awarded by the state's two largest university systems. That has excited some graduates who are fans of the governor but dismayed others who aren't fond of his movies or politics.
Ahnold
This is such a non-issue.
The governor's signature has always been on the college diplomas. It's not like Ahnold is kicking back after supper signing them individually. Jeez.
One of my old roommates graduated from Cal State Northridge while Raygun was still governor and later requested her diploma be replaced with one signed by Jerry Brown, not that anyone could blame her.
Christie's auction house employee Mariana Bravo displays the world's largest faceted sapphire, a rectangular-cut Kashmir sapphire also known as The Blue Giant of the Orient, weighing 486.52 carat, estimated to fetch US$1 to 1.5 million during a media preview in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. The Blue Giant of the Orient sapphire will be sold during Christie's Jewels sale on May 19 in Geneva.
Photo by Laurent Gillieron
'Non-Issue' For Pentagon
Fake Degrees
They are safety engineers at nuclear power plants and biological weapons experts. They work at NATO headquarters, at the Pentagon and at nearly every other federal agency. And, as CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, they're employees with degrees from phony schools.
Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Abell has a master's from Columbus University, a diploma mill Louisiana shut down. Deputy Assistant Secretary Patricia Walker lists among her degrees, a bachelor's from Pacific Western, a diploma mill banned in Oregon and under investigation in Hawaii.
CBS News requested interviews with both officials. The Pentagon turned us down, saying, "We don't consider it an issue."
Employees with diploma mill degrees are also at the new Transportation Security Administration, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Departments of Treasury and Education, where Rene Drouin sits on an advisory committee. He has degrees from two diploma mills including Kensington University.
For more, Fake Degrees
Becomes U.S. Citizen
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson has fame, fortune, fabulous good looks - and now her U.S. citizenship.
Anderson, 36, who was born in British Columbia, underwent an interview and passed a 10-question citizenship test Wednesday. She was then sworn in at a private ceremony, her attorney Barbara Federman said.
Anderson moved to California in 1989. Federman would not say why she sought U.S. citizenship. Immigration officials said the actress also retained her Canadian citizenship.
Pamela Anderson
27 Rationales For War in Iraq
Flip Flop
If it seems that there have been quite a few rationales for going to war in Iraq, that's because there have been quite a few - 27, in fact, all floated between Sept. 12, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All but four of the rationales originated with the administration of resident George W. Bush.
The study also finds that the Bush administration switched its focus from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein early on - only five months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
For the rest, Flip Flop
Scottish Coat of Arms
Colin Powell
US Secretary of State Colin Powell is set to receive a Scottish coat of arms in September to mark his Scottish ancestry, the Heraldry Society of Scotland said.
Powell's parents were both born in Jamaica, a member of the Commonwealth, but the family of his mother, Maud Ariel McKoy, originally came from Scotland in the 1920s.
In order to obtain Scottish coat of arms Powell had to make the request in the name of his late father, Luther Theophilus Powell.
The coat of arms will be made up of both the lion, traditionally associated with the name Powell, and the eagle, symbolising the United States. The presence of four stars, two swords and the motto "devoted to public service" are a reference to Powell's career as an army general and politician.
Colin Powell
In Memory
John Whitehead
John Whitehead, a prominent R&B artist best known for the 1979 hit song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," was shot dead Tuesday, police said.
Whitehead, 55, and another man were working on a vehicle when they were shot by two gunmen, police said. The assailants fled.
Gene McFadden, who was Whitehead's partner in the singing group McFadden & Whitehead, went to the scene in the city's West Oak Lane neighborhood and stood there trembling, WPVI-TV reported.
The two men formed a group called the Epsilons in their youth and were discovered by Otis Redding, touring with the legendary performer in the 1960s, according to their Web site.
The duo wrote several hit songs performed by others in the 1970s, including "Back Stabbers," "For the Love of Money," "I'll Always Love My Mamma," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up Everybody," "Where Are All My Friends," "The More I Want" and "Cold, Cold World."
John Whitehead
In Memory
Dorothy Van Engle
Dorothy Van Engle, who starred in several films in the 1930s and 1940s before Hollywood embraced black actors, died Monday, her family said. She was 87.
Van Engle, whose given name was Donessa Dorothy Hollon, appeared in several films, including "
Swing," "
Murder in Harlem," "Temptation," "Girl from Chicago" and "Lying Lips." She was known for her beauty and sophistication on the screen and was a favorite of black audiences.
Most of Van Engle's movies were produced by filmmaker
Oscar Micheaux, who is among the first black film producers. Micheaux was behind many of what are called "race movies" of the time. These films did not limit black actors to supporting roles as servants or comic buffoons, the way major studios did.
Dorothy Van Engle
In Memory
Tommy Farrell
Actor and comedian Tommy Farrell, the last of the B-western sidekicks, died Sunday Motion Picture and Television Fund officials said. He was 82.
"He was the last living B-western sidekick from that golden era of westerns," said Boyd Magers, editor and publisher of Western Clippings, referring to the films Farrell made with actor Whip Wilson in the early 1950s.
Farrell got his break he was cast in the 1950 western "Gunfire." He appeared in a number of other films, including "
Gunfighters of the Northwest," Elvis Presley's "
Kissin' Cousins" and "
A Guide for the Married Man," with Walter Matthau.
He played Cpl. Thad Carson on TV's "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" and had roles in small screen westerns like "Gunsmoke" and "Rawhide." He received a Golden Boot Award last year for his work in the genre.
Tommy Farrell
A young gorilla enjoys the warm weather at the Bronx Zoo, Tuesday, May 11, 2004 in the Bronx borough of New York.
Photo by Mary Schwalm
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